To: Rummyfan
Arlette Gondrée was a four-year old girl that day, and she has grown old with the teen-and-twenty soldiers who liberated her home and her town. But she is now the proprietress of the family café, and she has been there every June to greet those who return each year in dwindling numbers:That's the late Bill Bray and the late John Woodthorpe with Mme Gondrée on the seventieth anniversary.
2 posted on
06/06/2019 5:39:52 AM PDT by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
To: Rummyfan
And in the three-quarters of a century since June 6th, no D-Day veteran has ever had to pay for his drink at the Café Gondrée.
3 posted on
06/06/2019 6:14:09 AM PDT by
Track9
(I mess up the bell curve.)
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